A collection of recipes for the use of special diet kitchens in military hospitals / prepared and published under the auspices of the U.S. Christian Commission by Annie Wittenmyer.

  • Wittenmyer, Annie, 1827-1900.
Date:
1864
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Credit: A collection of recipes for the use of special diet kitchens in military hospitals / prepared and published under the auspices of the U.S. Christian Commission by Annie Wittenmyer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    EXTRACTS FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE'S NOTES ON NURSING. Chemistry has yet afforded little insight into the dieting of sick. All that chemistry can tell us, is the amount of carboniferous or nitrogenous elements discoverable in different dietetic articles. It has given us lists of dietetic substances, arranged in the order of their richness, in one or the other of these principles; but that is all. In the great majority of cases, the stomach of the patient is guided by other principles of selection than merely the amount of car- bon or nitrogen in the diet. No doubt in this, as in other things, nature has very definite rules for her guidance ; but these rules can only be ascertained by the most careful obser- vation at the bed-side. She there teaches us that living chemistry, the chemistry of reparation, is something different from the chemistry ol the laboratory. Organic chemistry is useful as all knowledge is, when we come face to face with nature, but it by no means follows that we should learn in the laboratory any one of the reparative processes going on in disease. * * * *